If you authorise our The Undeground Map Facebook app by clicking the Facebook logo at the top right of the screen, you can add stories, photos and more to this location.Note that the Undeground Map Facebook app does not post to Facebook on your behalf.

Mary Harris

Added: 19 Dec 2017 17:12 GMT

IP: 217.63.194.106

2:1:32394

Post by Mary Harris: 31 Princedale Road, W11John and I were married in 1960 and we bought, or rather acquired a mortgage on 31 Princedale Road in 1961 for £5,760 plus another two thousand for updating plumbing and wiring, and installing central heating, a condition of our mortgage. It was the top of what we could afford.

We chose the neighbourhood by putting a compass point on John’s office in the City and drawing a reasonable travelling circle round it because we didn’t want him to commute. I had recently returned from university in Nigeria, where I was the only white undergraduate and where I had read a lot of African history in addition to the subject I was studying, and John was still recovering from being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in the Far East in WW2. This is why we rejected advice from all sorts of people not to move into an area where there had so recently bee

Post by LDNnews: Barons CourtScotland Yard assessing allegation of misconduct in public office against Speaker John BercowPolice are assessing an allegation of misconduct in public office against Commons Speaker John Bercow.

Post by LDNnews: Barons CourtRuthless organised crime gangs are 'driving the surge in violence on London's streets'Crime groups such as the Albanian mafia are importing Class A drugs into London and fuelling turf wars, a top UK law enforcement official has said

Post by LDNnews: West BromptonHarry Kane says England can be inspired to win World Cup by Liverpool's run to Champions League final Harry Kane says England can take inspiration from Liverpool’s run to the Champions League final when they compete at the World Cup.

Post by LDNnews: Earls CourtLondon Burlesque Festival (25th May 18 to 26th May 18)Founded by the internationally acclaimed producer and burlesque pioneer, Chaz Royal, London Burlesque Festival acts as a centre stage for the world’s finest performers, raising the global profile of b...

Post by LDNnews: BayswaterWarning over 'votes irregularity' at scandal hit Tower Hamlets councilCampaigners have warned of alleged voting irregularities in a London borough previously rocked by an election scandal.

Holland Park is a district, an underground station (and indeed a park) in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Holland Park has a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, known for attractive large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants.

The district was rural until the 19th century. Most of it was formerly the grounds of a Jacobean mansion called Holland House. In the later decades of that century the owners of the house sold off the more outlying parts of its grounds for residential development, and the district which evolved took its name from the house. It also included some small areas around the fringes which had never been part of the grounds of Holland House, notably the Phillimore Estate and the Campden Hill Square area. In the late 19th century a number of notable artists (including Frederic Leighton, P.R.A. and Val Prinsep) and art collectors lived in the area. The group were collectively known as ’The Holland Park Circle’. Holland Park was in most part very comfortably upper middle class when originally developed and in recent decades has gone further upmarket.

Of the 19th-century residential developments of the area, one of the most architecturally interesting is The Royal Crescent designed in 1839. Clearly inspired by its older namesake in Bath, it differs from the Bath crescent in that it is not a true crescent at all but two quadrant terraces each terminated by a circular bow in the Regency style which rises as a tower, a feature which would not have been found in the earlier classically inspired architecture of the 18th century which the design of the crescent seeks to emulate. The design of the Royal Crescent by the planner Robert Cantwell in two halves was dictated by the location of the newly fashionable underground sewers rather than any consideration for architectural aesthetics.

Holland Park is now one of the most expensive residential districts in London.

Holland Park station, on the Central London Railway, opened on 30 July 1900. The station building was refurbished in the 1990s.

LOCATIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Cape Nursery: The Cape Nursery once lay along the south side of Shepherd’s Bush Green.Holland Park: Holland Park is a district, an underground station (and indeed a park) in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.Holland Park: Kensington (Olympia): Kensington (Olympia) station in West London is managed and served by London Overground and also served by London Underground. St Barnabas’ Church: St Barnabas’ Church is a church in Kensington.West Kensington: West Kensington station was opened in 1877.

COPYRIGHT TERMS:
Unless a source is explicitedly stated, text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;
additional terms may apply. Articles may be a remixes of various Wikipedia articles plus work by the website authors - original Wikipedia source can generally be accessed under the same name as the main title. This does not affect its Creative Commons attribution.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse

Maps upon this website are in the public domain because they are mechanical scans of public domain originals, or - from the available evidence - are so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The originals themselves are in public domain for the following reason:

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse

Maps used are in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.